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Best Google Extensions that could help speed up your regular tasks

Clockify Time Tracker for Chrome

The Clockify Time Tracker extension for Chrome allows track time, just like in the app, only faster, because you don’t have to open the app just to start another timer. You can track the time you spend on activities and use these results to analyze your productivity levels, see whether you can make improvements and have a log of your time for accurate billing. In addition, you can also work in preset work or break intervals with the Pomodoro timer, detect the time you spend idle, integrate with other business apps, set reminders to track time on tasks, and more.

The Todoist Chrome extension is a simple, but useful task manager. With it, you can keep track of your projects, and manage all your tasks, by organizing and delegating them directly from your Chrome. To make matters easier, you can color-code your projects; create sub-groups and sub-projects, and really micromanage your daily workload. This extension is also great for when you have a lot of deadlines you want to keep track of because it lets you define due dates and prioritize tasks.

Google Keep

Chrome extensions are software programs built up to provide with extra functionality in your Chrome browser. Google Keep is a great extension for Google Chrome, for when want to keep all your data neatly organized. Its primary function is help you take notes or create to-do lists; you can also save images and pages or then add notes to them. You can even take notes by making the voice memos that are later transcribed.

Google Keep also lets you set-up location-based reminders for your notes and lists. Say you have to do some on-location research for the travel app. Just make a list of all the details you should keep an eye on, and set a location-based reminder so that Google Keep pulls up your list as soon as you get to the location. To make your notes even more organized, so you do not have to waste time looking for them, you can color-code them and associate them with labels.

Productivity Owl

The Productivity Owl really makes sure you up your productivity game and work quickly. This extension allows you only a certain amount of time to browse a web page before it closes the web page. An owl animation will follow you to all the websites browsing or count down your time, reminding you to focus on the task at hand. It can also close inactive tabs after 15 minutes if you enable this option.

They have to use Productivity Owl to restrict the time you spend on certain time-consuming websites, but you can also block them entirely. Or, you can learn to perform online tasks, including research, quicker, by training yourself to find relevant information on web pages before the timer goes off. White-list websites frequently use for this work. You can also schedule your free time, and the Owl won’t close your pages automatically during at this time.

Hypercontext

Hypercontext is a solution that empowers up to 100,000 managers of their teams to be high-performing by combining quarterly priorities, weekly meetings, and engagement measures, all in one place. With the freemium chrome extension, you can add to your meeting agenda from any tab, manage your agendas and next steps through Google Calendar and use your agenda directly in Google Meet. The extension comes with an optional GSD feature that stops you from getting distracted on social media and prompts you to focus on your next meeting instead.

Using the app, you are able to build collaborative meeting agendas for one-on-one, team, and cross-functional meetings, access hundreds of conversation starters and hold everyone accountable for sharing feedback every single meeting. Hypercontext helps keep your meetings on track and your team accountable.

Noisli

Noisli is one of those Chrome extensions specifically designed to boost your productivity.They are focus on the task at hand, and choose the sound combo you find most inspiring. This can be the sound for falling rain, coffee shop chatter, the sound of a storm, wood noises, fire crackling, and white noise, the sound of the wind and crickets, and etc.

Noisli is especially useful if you are working in an open office where the background noises are likely to distract for you. Just switch on the extension, choose a sound combination you want, and put your headphones on. The list of sounds is really extensive, and combines whatever number of sounds you want.

StayFocusd

If, lack the willpower to stay away from YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and other time-consuming websites, StayFocusd is the choice for you. Say you want to restrict the time you spend for every day on Facebook to 10 minutes. Facebook to your list of blocked sites, select 10 minutes, and shift attention to your daily work. You will probably check Facebook occasionally, but you can spend only a total of 10 minutes on it a day. This extension will help you avoid online distractions by restricting the time you’re allowed to spend on them.

Once your 10 minutes are up, you won’t be able to access for Facebook and any other blocked website until the next day. You also won’t be able to change the settings to give yourself more minutes on a website once your time on it has expired, so your willpower won’t be tempted.